Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and America’s dairy farmers will announce a significant commitment to child health and wellness through funding to support school nutrition in order…
$35 Million to Help Schools Serve Healthier Meals, Strengthen Childhood Nutrition
Amid pre-Super Bowl 50 celebrations today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, and Paul Rovey, dairy farmer and leader of the National Dairy Council (NDC), announced the availability…
Grants for Food Safety and Plant Health Improvements
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the award of $30.1 million in competitive grants to fund 80 research projects to improve food safety, reduce antibiotic resistance in food, and increase…
USDA to Invest $150 Million through Conservation Stewardship Program
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that $150 million in funding is available for agricultural producers through the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), USDA’s largest conservation program, by acres impacted, that…
National Cotton Council Statement on Cottonseed Designation
The National Cotton Council is extremely disappointed in Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s comments today that USDA believes its legal interpretation of the farm bill does not provide the authority to make…
Agri View: Agriculture Future
…a very narrow prism of production agriculture,” USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack told CNBC. “It’s not just production agriculture now but this is an expanding, entrepreneurial, creative, opportunistic aspect of our…
Effects of Drought for Forests and Rangelands
…forests and rangelands are national treasures, and because they are threatened, we are threatened,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “This report confirms what we are seeing, that every region of…
Wetland Mitigation Banking Program
…Agriculture Department is designed to restore, create, or enhance wetland eco-systems. Agriculture Secretary talked with reporters last Thursday about the wetland mitigation banking program. “It gives farmers the ability if…
USDA Seeks Proposals for Market-Based Wetland Protection Systems
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the establishment of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Wetland Mitigation Banking Program, made possible by the 2014 Farm Bill. Through the program, NRCS…
A Proposal To Augment USDA’s Summer Meals Program
…commit as a country to make sure not 3.8 million youngsters have access to summer meals but all 20, 21 million kids.” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack telling a white house…
Four Californians Selected to Air Quality Task Force
…such as the Environmental Protection Agency. The task force advises the Secretary of Agriculture on air quality and its relationship to agriculture based on sound scientific findings; Reviews research on…
USDA, Microsoft Announce Innovation Challenge Winners
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Microsoft officials announced the winners of the USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge, in which contestants used USDA agriculture production open data to develop online tools that can…
USDA Investments Make Big Impact for Rural America in 2015
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released a report detailing the tangible results across rural America that stemmed from investments by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development team in local…
Vilsack Leads Trade Mission to Chile and Peru
Vilsack The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will lead a trade mission March 14 to March 18 to expand export opportunities for U.S. agriculture…